Readers of this publication who served on the General Synod between its first iteration in 1970 and 1997 will have relied upon Sylvia Brantingham. She had, amongst other responsibilities, the task of managing the accommodation at the York sessions. And [...]
Roger Caswell remembers Beaumont Lauder Brandie, Priest, 21st October 1940-19th May 2020 How very Beau - to have left instructions that ‘Ecce sacerdos magnus’ should be played at his cremation service. Ecce sacerdos magnus - behold a great priest - [...]
Eleanor Relle introduces a catholic pioneer “Sissie and I to Mission Service/Mr Boys, at All Saints at 4. No canonical 3 hymns. 2 extempore prayers. Exposition on Union of Believers with Christ ignoring the Church’s means of Union.” This entry [...]
Michael Fisher considers his call The Parish Mass had ended, and the congregation were leaving. The priest stood by the door to chat to people or simply say goodbye. Among them was a thirty-one-year-old teacher who attempted to slip past [...]
When I applied for the role of Director of Forward in Faith – can it really have been as long as a year ago? – little did I imagine that, after six weeks of handover and just a month on [...]
Harri Williams offers a reflection for Corpus Christi I must admit to having been rather despondent about the celebration of Corpus Christi this year. At the beginning of lockdown I had imagined we would have returned to our church buildings [...]
Ryan N. Danker introduces the Eucharistic hymns of John and Charles Wesley I would be loath to call John and Charles Wesley Thomists, but I once insinuated something along those lines during a meeting of the United States Methodist and [...]
Tony Hodgson reflects upon the legacy of Bishop Baddeley In his perceptively written lead article of June’s edition of New Directions, Dr John Tomlinson provided both a fascinating and encouraging overview of the present condition of the Catholic Tradition across [...]
J. Alan Smith on an act of reconciliation My father, Francis John (Jack) Smith, died in Mukaishima POW Camp on 28 December 1942. Mukaishima is on a small island off the southern coast of Honshu, the main island of Japan, [...]
Luke Walford introduces this new resource Being aged twenty, I struggle to remember a time in which the internet was not the complex, ever expanding tool we have now. The huge computer screens, floppy disks, and mobile phones of the [...]